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Paraguay says it’s not abandoning Taiwan. China has other plans.

Paraguayan and Taiwanese flags outside of the Taiwanese Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, last year

Paraguayan and Taiwanese flags outside of the Taiwanese Embassy in Asuncion, Paraguay, last year | Maria Magdalena Arrellaga / The New York Times

By Laurence Blair
The New York Times

Apr 30, 2026

EUSEBIO AYALA, Paraguay – There are odd couples. Then there’s Taiwan and Paraguay.

The high-tech island nation and its rural, landlocked South American ally sit on opposite sides of the Earth.

United in 1957 by two military rulers — Chiang Kai-shek and Alfredo Stroessner — driven by anti-communist fervor, this improbable duo have been inseparable ever since.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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